Word: maladroitness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fear discovery, they deliver the child themselves. They also play at marriage, standing in a corner of the church during a real wedding ceremony and whispering the vows to each other. There is even an unhappy ending, meant to be touching, but so laughably illogical that it becomes merely maladroit...
Poverty and discrimination condemn blacks to bad housing. Less obvious factors include the decay of public housing (50.8% occupied by blacks) and maladroit federal programs, such as urban renewal and highway building, which razed 800,000 city units between 1949 and 1967. The Government has also speeded the white exodus from cities. Since World War II, it has financed only 800,000 urban units, while insuring the financing of 10 million suburban homes. Fortunately, the Federal Housing Administration has begun to change this pattern. More than 50% of FHA's mortgage insuring activity has lately been shifted to properties...